My boyfriend left the cold tap running in his bathroom from 6am till 10pm. how much water did he waste?

Question

My boyfriend left the cold tap running in his bathroom from 6am till 10pm. how much water did he waste?

Answer 1

alot

Answer 2

Not enough info to give an answer.  It depends on the size of the faucet and the water pressure in the line.

Answer 3

tell your boyfriend that he wasted so much precious water that he will cause a world-wide drought!

Answer 4

None. The water went down the drain to either your septic system or the sewage treatment plant and it'll rejoin all it's water friends somewhere else in the water cycle. He wasted the time and energy it took to make it usable (if in a city water system), to pump it to his bathroom, and a whole lot of money if you're on a meter.

Answer 5

better keep a close eye on him around gas pumps

Answer 6

a lot... which is all that anyone can say with out knowing the GPM rate.

Answer 7

Is that why the town Duck pond is empty? About  7,000 gallons. Even a drip can lose 120 gal. a month.

Answer 8

look at the gpm on the faucet opening ( where the areator is at the end) GPM stands for gallons per minute.  you can calculate it and tell him just what an idiot he is!

Answer 9

alot

several gallons

Answer 10

Normal water flow in a household plumbing system is around 1 to 2 gallons a minute.

Let's see:

16 hours times 60 minutes per hour times 2 gallons per minute is about 2,000 gallons.

Could have been worse.

It could have been the hot water.